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The sexiest men in books

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When you think of hot literary heroes, perhaps the first fellows to come to mind are the obvious ones – Mr Darcy, Rhett Butler or even Christian Grey if that’s your bag.    But you can keep Soggy Shirt, Don’t Give A Damn and Captain Cable Tie, I’ve just fallen for a new leading man […]

What do you read in the lav?

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Not long ago I was chuffed to discover that this ‘umble blog was the lavvy reading of choice at the home of a pal. For the smartphone generation littlest-room reading has no limits – with your pants around your ankles you can google yourself to where ever you fancy. Is it me, or is the […]

A slacker’s guide to classic novels

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OK. You know those lists that have all the books you should have read? The ones, in my case, that I feel quite smug about To Kill A Mockingbird and Brave New World, but pretty inadequate about almost everything else. Those. My powers of bluster and google had in the most part got me through. […]

The go-to-bed alarm

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I have a problem at bedtime. It happens several times a week. After a pleasant evening of TV and chat with the Panther, I simply don’t know when to stop. The show we sat down to sneer at is finished and the bedtime hour (when taking into account our age, the horrible time the alarm […]

Book group reading suggestions for 2014 please…

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It’s time for the book group I attend to choose it’s reading list for 2014. We try to have a mixture of new, old and non-fiction… something for everyone and hopefully not too many stinkers. Everyone comes up with their suggestions and we have a kind of vote before we get on with the pressing business […]